History Main / LegCling

* Film/JamesBond 007 in ''[[http://www.thespacereview.com/archive/779a.jpg Moonraker]]''.

** Chevy Chase knows what we're talking about in ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation''.
** Chevy also [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2113576192/tt0089670 doesn't know when to quit]] (in more ways than one) in ''Film/NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation''.

* ''WebVideo/DiamandaHagan'': Another gender-inversed example with the [=YouTube=] preview pic of the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmuiHUrvMgU Berserker: Hell's Warrior]]'' review. It's Diamanda as the muscle-bound barbarian warrior, and [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Filmbrain]] as the scantily-clad wench between her legs.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOT2Sj_9i_s A deleted scene]] for ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' has Ego showing the Guardians a Xandar War Memorial he built, showing Star-Lord "single-handedly saving the galaxy". To the dismay of the other Guardians, Peter Quill is pictured as larger than life, standing triumphantly above Ronan the Accuser, with Drax reduced to a monkey on his shoulder and Gamora clinging submissively to his leg.

* One of the flashback comics in Webcomic/SisterClaire features [[http://www.sisterclaire.com/missing-moments/missing-moment-salita-3 a version of this pose]] with Clementine and Gabi watching the sun rise over Thronum Mare -- except Clementine is a scrawny teenage girl with horns and Gabi is her [[SelkiesAndWereseals selkie]] girlfriend.

* Franchise/NationalLampoon

--> ''"At a respectful invitation from Hadrathus he seated himself on an ivory chair, and motioned Albiona to another, but she preferred to sit on a golden stool at his feet, pressing close against his thigh, as if seeking security in the contact."''
----> Literature/TheHourOfTheDragon

* Parodied deliciously [[https://www.deviantart.com/art/Rory-Destroyer-of-Worlds-330428489 here]], using ''[[Series/DoctorWho The Last Centurion]] as the standing badass.

* As seen [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Strange,_Sorcerer_Supreme_Vol_1_5 here]] Clea is often posing submissively on ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange ''covers, no matter how much demonic ass she kicks in the actual story.

* ComicBook/Vampirella probably was envious of Red Sonja, now she has a spoof cover too. ("Savage Tales", 2018)

* NationalLampoonFilms

** Chevy also [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2113576192/tt0089670 doesn't know when to quit]] (in more ways than one) in ''NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation''.

* Just to show that she is [[spoiler: The Key/demon slaying queen interdimensional demi goddess]] ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a gender flipped version where Dawn is delivering a CurbStompBattle as Xander clings to her leg.

* FMV in ''[[VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete]]'', shows Luna [[spoiler: awakened as the goddess Althena, doing this to Magic Emperor Ghaleon]].

* [[http://yuki-chat.org/shimmie/_images/b5bddb9fe30a33c77835f1fd888c99e9/5495%20-%20amputee%20berserk%20blood%20casca%20guts%20monsters%20nude.jpg The cover art for the infamous volume 13]] of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' offers a variant, with a shirtless, bloodsoaked Guts cradling a naked Casca in his (severed) arm, while he holds a broken sword in the other arm and has sinister smirk on his face. The backdrop of the scene is full of demons, and Guts looks quite manly and victorious in the moment... [[spoiler: [[CoversAlwaysLie If only it had actually played out like this in the actual story.]]]]

* A "historically accurate" model from ''Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory'' features SteamPunk hero Lord Cockswain being clasped this way by a Venusian BadassPrincess, with the implication that they should [[FakeUltimateHero actually be the other way round]].

* [[http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i52/JackSkinnerMorningstar/MarvelUniverseVsThePunisher3025.jpg Mary Jane Watson of all people clings to]]... wait for it, wait for it... [[ComicBook/MarvelUniverseVsThePunisher The Punisher]]!

* Alex Ross's cover for ''[[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=21205 Thulsa Doom]]''.

* ''Literature/BimbosOfTheDeathSun'': As part of its general ContemptableCover, the eponymous book has a scantily-clad barbarian woman clinging to the leg of a muscular scientist with a clipboard.

* One of the flashback comics in Webcomic/SisterClaire features [[http://www.sisterclaire.com/missing-moments/missing-moment-salita-3 a version of this pose]] with Clementine and Gabi watching the sun rise over Thronum Mare - except Clementine is a scrawny teenage girl with horns and Gabi is her [[SelkiesAndWereseals selkie]] girlfriend.

* As seen [[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Strange,_Sorcerer_Supreme_Vol_1_5 here]] Clea is often posing submissively on ComicBook/DoctorStrange covers, no matter how much demonic ass she kicks in the actual story.

* ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'' gives us an obviously tongue-in-cheek [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Racoonian]] version [[http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00001.html as its cover page.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress "MMMystery on the Friendship Express"]], Pinkie Pie's ImagineSpot about Donut Joe destroying her cake with lasers ends with two mares appearing out of nowhere solely to strike this pose.
* [[http://vimeo.com/91504133 The Serpent Princess]]

This trope was popularized by the fantasy art of Creator/FrankFrazetta[[http://frankfrazetta.org/viewimage.php?loc=frank_frazetta_thebarbarian.jpg]] and Creator/BorisVallejo[[http://vallejo.ural.net/1978/show.php?017]] (Warning: it's even less safe for work than the picture to the right.)

* Film/FlashGordon's {{Parallel Porn Title|s}} ''[[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1819974912/tt0068595 Flesh Gordon]]''.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/DragonMango'': the door to [[TrainingFromHell Sherbert]]'s house has a sign depicting a hero standing triumphantly over a monster's corpse with a leg clinger and has the caption "you must be at least this {{badass}} to enter".